Elvi Niemi of Fortuna passed away on June 18, 2023. Elvi lived a long and good life.

Born in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to immigrant parents in 1923, she was the youngest of seven children. Elvi enjoyed life and shared her appreciation of her life experiences with her family and friends. She grew up on a farm during the Great Depression, and the experiences she had during those years guided many of her life’s pleasures and choices. Elvi and her husband enjoyed fishing, hunting, hiking and camping in the woods and the high deserts, farming, and raising a family. She was an avid antiques collector, reader, and crossword puzzle player, as well as an accomplished shorthand stenographer and typist, and a meticulous bookkeeper.

Elvi was widowed in 1993, and after that enjoyed camping and visiting with her daughters and their families, long daily walks, and playing pinochle at the Fortuna Senior Center.

Elvi had a great sense of humor, and told stories of her early family life that made us all belly laugh until we cried. She loved the three daughters she and her husband raised together here in California, and the sisters and brothers and their children that she left behind when she and her husband moved from Michigan to the West Coast. She is survived by three daughters, eight grandchildren, and four great- grandchildren.

Elvi was a wonderful and loving mom and friend. We miss her greatly, and have wonderful memories of her that will last our lifetimes.

Special thanks to First Choice Care Home in Fortuna, where Elvi comfortably spent her last years, to Angela Murray FNP for caring and attentive medical care, and to Hospice of Humboldt.

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